Honestly, if I ever said something like that to my child, I would pray that they would respond "well, you may not be, but I am, so there". Just to put me in my place. I hate when parents condescend with the word "we".

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'Blindfold me and read out the Facebook statuses of my friends, without their names, and I will tell you which are American and which are British. Americans post links to inspirational stories and parenting blogs packed with life lessons. (British parenting blogs tend to be packed with despair and feces.) ' Ruth Whippman, America the Anxious